Collar button



.March 28, 1939.

F. H. RAUH G OLLAR BUTTON Filed May 24, 1938 /AvAvAw INVENTOR ma fg. M,

v Patented Mar. 28, 1939 UNITED STATES PATENT oFFicE 1 Claim.

My invention relates to an improvement in buttons or studs such as are used for attaching detachable collars to the neckbands of shirts.

Objects of my invention are to make a stud which can be utilized, without changing any of its parts, to take up slack in the neckband of a shirt; to do this by employing a rigid, double shanked button; to so proportion the parts that both shanks or the button may be passed through the same button hole; to modify the operative length of the shirt collar band by reversing the position of the shanks in the button hole: and to accomplish the other objects hereinafter pointed out and claimed.

In the drawing Figure 1 is a plan View and Figure 2 is a side elevation of a collar button illustrating my improvements; Figure 3 isv a perspective view of the collar button applied to the neckband of a shirt; Figure Il is a vertical sectional view of the ends of a shirt collar band and the ends of a detachable collar assembled on the collar button in such a way as tol shorten the free portion of the shirt collar band; and Figure 5 is a similar view showing the collar buttonturned end for end in the button holes' with the result that will be hereinafter pointed out.

In all the gures similar parts are designated by similar reference numerals.

In practice it not infrequently happens that the neckband of a shirt does not fit smoothly and evenly inside of a detachable collar. This may arise from several causes. For instance the neckband of the shirt may stretch, or the collar may shrink; or a proper' selection of the sizes of neckband and collar may not have been made. If the collar is too snug for the neckband the latter will be puckered or wrinkled causing a ridge or ridges which irritate the neck of the wearer causing him annoyance and inconvenience. This wrinkling can be gotten rid of by drawing the neckbancl tight and increasing the overlap of its ends. But where a single shankstud is used, which passes through both ends of the shirt band and both ends of the collar, the shank of the in comparison with the collar, both Shanks of the collar button are inserted through an end button hole of the neckband, with the shorter stud in the y outer end of the button hole. When, therefore, the shank 2 is passed up through the button hole in the end of the shirt band 5, the ends of the neckband will be caused to overlap farther than if a single shank stud was used. For instance, the amount of the eXtra overlap as shown in Figs. 4 and 5 is substantially the distance between the longitudinal axes of the Shanks 2 and 3, the end of the band 4 being pushed along by the shank 3, held in position by shank 2 so that to that extent any slackness in the neckband will be taken up.

If it is desired to use the stud in the normal way so that both ends of the neckband and both ends of the collar are held in place by it, with all the endsin their normal relation, this may be accomplished by reversing the position of the stud in the button holes as shown in Fig. 5. Any slight inequality in the free ends of the neckband may, in practice, be compensated for by the sliding of 30 the back stud in the button hole in the back of the neckband. The two Shanks of the collar button elfectually hold the base plate I in proper position relative to the neckband, and prevent its dropping out of proper alignment so as to irritate the neck of the wearer. Furthermore, the construction oi the short shank so as to normally accommodate the thickness of only one end of the shirt band eliminates any annoying bulge or pressure where the neckband end and the collar ends lie over the head of the short shank.

I desire it to be understood that details of my improved collar button may be modified, as by the use of mechanical equivalents, without departing from the spirit of my invention or the scope of my claim, the construction illustrated being considered as a typical one and not an exclusive one.

Having thus described my invention what I 'claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

A collar button, for use in theneck band of a shirt having a conventional button hole near each end thereof, embodying a substantially flat,

thickness of said neck band and the longer shank being proportioned to receive at the same time both ends of the neck band and both ends of a. detachable collar, whereby the neck band may be slackened by reversing the position of theshanks 5 in said neck band button holes.

FREDERIC I-I. RAUH. 

